Proceedings: Conference on Corporate Communication 2012 Page 1
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Investor Relati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> the Internet<br />
Dialogical Communicati<strong>on</strong> Capacities of the Top 100 ISEM (IMKB/Istanbul Stock<br />
Exchange Market) Companies for Investor Relati<strong>on</strong>s in Turkey<br />
B. Pınar Özdemir<br />
Ankara University Faculty of Communicati<strong>on</strong><br />
Ankara University, Turkey<br />
pozdemir@ankara.edu.tr<br />
Investors are <strong>on</strong>e of the most significant stakeholders for private corporati<strong>on</strong>s. Investor relati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
is a relatively new phenomen<strong>on</strong>, which looks to share informati<strong>on</strong> and building relati<strong>on</strong>ships with<br />
the company’s present and potential investors, ec<strong>on</strong>omic analysts, ec<strong>on</strong>omics corresp<strong>on</strong>dents, the<br />
general financial community, and several others. In the last two decades, expansi<strong>on</strong> of the<br />
Internet offers private companies a strategic and dynamic tool for communicating and building<br />
with these groups. This paper is methodologically based <strong>on</strong> dialogic communicati<strong>on</strong> principles of<br />
Kent and Taylor (1998), and examines top 100 ISEM companies’ investor relati<strong>on</strong>s links in their<br />
corporate webpages by operati<strong>on</strong>alizing these principles in terms of identifying the relati<strong>on</strong>ships<br />
of these companies with their publics. We c<strong>on</strong>clude that, although the Internet serves as a great<br />
opportunity for investor relati<strong>on</strong>s by creating dialogical communicati<strong>on</strong>, companies use it <strong>on</strong>ly for<br />
sharing limited informati<strong>on</strong> that they are legally obligated to.<br />
Abstracts of <str<strong>on</strong>g>C<strong>on</strong>ference</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Proceedings</str<strong>on</strong>g>: <str<strong>on</strong>g>C<strong>on</strong>ference</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Corporate</strong> Communicati<strong>on</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
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